National Public Health Laboratory: National Reference Laboratory of Nepal

National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) is the government national reference laboratory under the Department of health services & Ministry of Health (MoH) with the mandate of regulatory, networking, capacity strengthening, research and quality assurances of the health care laboratories throughout the country. The major goal of NPHL is to address diagnostic needs due to emerging and re-emerging diseases including neglected tropical diseases.

National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL),Ministry of Health, Nepal

     Special laboratory services available in NPHL:

• ·      Currently, NPHL has facility of biosafety level (BSL) III lab with real time PCR (RT-PCR) which is in use for testing viral load & Avain Influenza including Swine flu.
• ·      NPHL has just started to diagnose sickle cell anemia and Thalassemia, this test service is only provided by NPHL in Nepal. Patients don’t need to travel India & other foreign countries to diagnose such disease after available of such facility.
• ·         Advance immunological tests facilities are provided at low rate cost like TORCH, Tumors markers etc.
• ·         Special histological & cytological tests facilities are available at low rate cost.
• ·         Special hormonal tests including thyroid function tests, ADA, etc. at low rate cost.
• ·         IgM, IgG antibodies based advanced tests mainly focuses on vector borne diseases like Dengue, Scrub typhus, Chikungunia etc.
• ·         Some other special tests include Western blot (HIV confirmatory), CD4 count test, Stone analysis, bacterial culture etc.
•    Special vitamin tests like Vitamin B12, Folic acid, Ferritin Vitamin D3 etc.
•     Advance genetic level research studies are conducted in collaboration with many international health agencies.

                            www.nphl.gov.np

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